Just heard on news 24 05:30 bsm thaksins wife has been convicted of tax fraud no other details given just a few clips of thaksin at the airport waving his passport around

Big thread on Thai Visa about it.

http://nationmultimedia.com/

If every currupt politician in Thailand was put in prison, they'd be full in a week...Bit like the UK really

Probably will never do a day inside...but it's a start.



Nick

Interesting summary from the beeb -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7534374.stm

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If every currupt politician in Thailand was put in prison, they'd be full in a week...Bit like the UK really

I guess thats a joke. Please name a UK politician who has personally benefitted from corruption in the last 10 years. Then name one in histroy who has trousered millions or billions of pounds.

Ian

It is a joke but if you want to be pedantic..Derek Conway and family

Nick

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Originally posted by IanB:

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If every currupt politician in Thailand was put in prison, they'd be full in a week...Bit like the UK really

I guess thats a joke. Please name a UK politician who has personally benefitted from corruption in the last 10 years. Then name one in histroy who has trousered millions or billions of pounds.

Ian

The war criminal Tony Blair seems to be doing alright.

You are incredibly naive to even think that no politicians have personally benefitted from corruption in the UK. It goes on all the time.

.. meanwhile, back in Thailand, here's the Bangkok Post's reports on the court case:

Pre-sentencing report:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/310708_News/31Jul2008_news01.php

Post-sentencing report:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=129171

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You are incredibly naive to even think that no politicians have personally benefitted from corruption in the UK. It goes on all the time.

. . .and your evidence of this is?

Please start a fresh topic in the Off-Topic Lounge if you wish to bicker about corruption in UK politics.

Thanks

What Derek Conway did was daft and deplorable. Basically he was fiddling his expenses - something that if I did I would rightly be sacked.

However, it is not what I would call corruption in the sense of "the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any thing of value to influence the action of a public official whether in the UK or overseas"

The only examples that I can think of nationall are cash for honours and the F1 tobacco sponsorship deal, which are both disgusting but the money was trousered by the Labour Party (and the Tory party in the case of cash for honours) not individual politicians.


Ooops sorry Paul - cross posted! However, there is an ongoing issue on the forum that people make off topic silly comments and these should be challenged.

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Originally posted by IanB:
However, there is an ongoing issue on the forum that people make off topic silly comments and these should be challenged.

By you?

Nick

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Please name a UK politician who has personally benefitted from corruption in the last 10 years.

Jeffrey Archer

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Originally posted by maokaang:
Please start a fresh topic in the Off-Topic Lounge if you wish to bicker about corruption in UK politics.

Thanks